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Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials, MJ,[3] is an American retired professional basketball player, businessman, and principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. His biography on the NBA website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time."[4] Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was considered instrumental in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.[5]

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I chose this article because this student said something not clearly. She caused a lot of  confusion between two countries. She had an apology for all people. I'm an overseas student too. I think I can learn something from this event.

Comment by Ethan,this article has meaningful for every Chinese student actually freedom of speech is important,and i believe everyone sholud know the truth.

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A Chinese student has apologised following a furious reaction to her US graduation speech that praised the "fresh air of democracy".

Speaking at the University of Maryland, Yang Shuping drew a parallel between air pollution in China and the country's restrictions on free speech.

Angry Chinese social media users accused her of denigrating her homeland and told her to stay in the US.

But the university backed her, saying it was vital to hear different views.

Ms Yang - who was selected by the university to speak - contrasted wearing a face mask against pollution with the "sweet and fresh" air in the US.

"The moment I inhaled and exhaled outside the airport, I felt free," she said in a video of the speech posted on YouTube.

"I would soon feel another kind of fresh air for which I will be forever grateful. The fresh air of free speech. Democracy and free speech should not be taken for granted. Democracy and freedom are the fresh air that is worth fighting for," she continued.

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Her speech became one of the hottest topics on the internet in China, with posts about it having been viewed more than 50m times by Tuesday.

Many Chinese social media users were angry, including fellow Chinese students at the University of Maryland who made their own YouTube video in which they accused Ms Yang of "false statements".

One of the students, Xinliang Jiang, said China was "still improving" and "needed to embrace suggestions from the outside world" but said Ms Yang's speech amounted to "deceptions and lies".

The city authorities in her home city of Kunming in southwestern China also weighed in, saying air quality had been good almost every day so far this year and adding: "In Kunming, air is very likely to be 'sweet and fresh'."

The People's Daily newspaper meanwhile accused her of making a "biased" speech.

Faced with mounting uproar, Ms Yang issued a statement on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, saying she was "surprised and disturbed" by the reaction to her speech and "deeply loved" her motherland.

"I apologise and sincerely hope everyone can forgive me. I have learned my lesson," she wrote.

She was nevertheless backed by her university, which said in a statement: "Listening to and respectfully engaging with those whom we disagree are essential skills, both within university walls and beyond".

Some Weibo users agreed. "It looks like even if Chinese people go to America, they still can't have freedom of speech," one said.

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A Chinese student has apologised following a furious reaction to her US graduation speech that praised the "fresh air of democracy". Speaking at the University of Maryland, Yang Shuping drew a parallel between air pollution in China and the country's restrictions on free speech.

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It's 8am in Hanoi and already thousands of motorbikes, mopeds and scooters flow through the streets. Some sway with the weight of two or three passengers, boxes of merchandise, sacks of rice, or tied-down pieces of furniture that look heavier than vehicle and driver combined.

For the first-time pedestrian, crossing the road is a daunting experience, but, amid all the apparent chaos, the "system" works. The trick is to just walk when you can, and let the torrent of bikes flow around you. Don't look left, don't look right. Just walk.

This functioning chaos contrasts sharply with the mostly prudent macroeconomic course that Vietnam has been taking. The Doi Moi, or "renovation" economic reforms were launched in 1986, emulating China's move to open up its markets, after more than a decade of stagnation since the fall of Saigon to the Vietnamese communist forces.

Vietnam has changed rapidly in the past 10 years, but locals say the country still lags behind its neighbours, such as Thailand and Malaysia, which have a gross national income (GNI) per capita of $3,760 and $7,230 respectively. Last year, Vietnam's GNI per head was US$1,010, highlighting the country's impressive progress on eradicating extreme poverty. Hanoi is a far cry from the quiet, inward-looking city it was prior to Vietnam's economic take-off, though rural poverty persists, particularly in more remote and ethnic minority areas.

How to maintain this progress is the key challenge facing Vietnam's policy makers. Thailand and Malaysia are hemmed in by the so-called "middle-income trap", which suggests that while countries can move up from the ranks of the very poor, moving further forward is more complex, as competitiveness falls off and costs for investors increase. With the middle-income trap comes widening inequalities, as vast wealth often gets concentrated in a few hands.

Kuala Lumpur this year announced ambitious plans to transform Malaysia into an OECD-standard economy, attempting to emulate the rise of South Korea, once one of the poorest countries in the world. Crucial to South Korea's rise was education reform, and that is one area in which Vietnam is doing well. In Hanoi, conversations with young Vietnamese professionals and students were all peppered with references to the importance of a good education to Vietnamese people. Investments in eduation and health were part of Vietnam's renovation reforms.

Vietnam has just been promoted to this middle division of the international economic league tables, but wants to keep moving up the ranks. In common with much of Asia, Vietnam's economy is vaulting clear of the global slowdown - which in hindsight now looks more like a western malaise. Growth for 2010 is projected to beat the 5% recorded last year - though these numbers are down on the 6.5% -8% average for the previous decade.

The opening, in October, of technology firm Intel's largest plant in the world, in Ho Chi Minh City, was a high-profile reminder of the country's emergence as an investment target for multinationals. Intel president and chief executive Paul Otellini joined Vietnam's deputy prime minister, Hoang Trung Hai, at the opening, with Hai remarking that the new facility "supports our goal of accelerating economic transformation led by technology-intensive industries". Less than a week later, at the culmination of the East Asian and ASEAN summits, held in Vietnam, US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, witnessed the signing of investment deals by Microsoft and Boeing.

However, Vietnam's move out of poverty and its economic growth owes a good deal to the thawing of its relations with the US and the subsequent forging of trade and investment links. The US is Vietnam's second largest trade partner, but its largest is China. Despite all the historic enmities - Vietnam was a Chinese colonial outpost for a millennium - the Chinese style of political economy was adapted. The ambivalence toward the emerging superpower to the north endures, with Hanoi now trying to balance the fears aroused by Beijing's growing assertiveness with the economic realities of having China as a neighbour.

Vietnam has been sidling closer to the US, letting China know that it has options should Beijing lean too hard on its smaller neighbours. When the naval destroyer USS John S. McCain docked in Da Nang port in mid-August, the symbolism was rich. The ship is named after the grandfather of 2008 US presidential candidate John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam.

However Hanoi's strategy will likely be a balance between the two giants. China's presence in Vietnam's central highlands has proved controversial, with plenty of criticism fired at the ruling communist party by bloggers and writers who think that the country's rulers have sold out to Beijing. Their focus has been on mining projects run by the Chinese, citing environmental concerns - a downside of Vietnam's economic rise - and the siphoning-off of Vietnamese resources to China.

However, this outcry in turn has prompted a clampdown on opposing voices ahead of the five-year party congress, scheduled for early 2011. Around 20 activists have been arrested or jailed since October, a clear signal that, like China, Vietnam's one-party rulers will not cede power or allow democracy to play a part in its "renovation". And other damaging aspects of China's governance model have been adopted.

Vietnam's two-child policy has doubtless done a lot to boost the country's progress in the millennium development goals in terms of reducing child and maternal mortality, but is leaving Vietnam with a demographic imbalance , just like China. In Vietnam, according to UN statistics, the birthrate is 112 boys to every 100 girls, as women have an average of three abortions in a lifetime, to meet the two-child policy.

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It's 8am in Hanoi and already thousands of motorbikes, mopeds and scooters flow through the streets. Some sway with the weight of two or three passengers, boxes of merchandise, sacks of rice, or tied-down pieces of furniture that look heavier than vehicle and driver combined.

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I chose the article about saving elephants because every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed by poachers in Africa. There are fewer and fewer elephants in the world
Comment by Michael
the article is so important for humans and i like this article. i think the government should protect the elephants and put some limit on the shot gun.i hold the opinion that we should refuse to buy the elephants products.
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This article is very useful for protecting elephants.I am persuaded by the article. Elephants are in dan
MIike :We need to protect the elephants and punish the people who kill animals for money. People stop  trading with ivory.

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I can hear the deep, throaty baying of the bloodhounds clearly from my hiding place 500 metres away. The sound makes my skin prickle with fear. I've done everything I can to disguise my trail, from burying it under animal scat to peeing on it, from doubling back and criss-crossing the plain to fording a stream. But the howling is approaching so rapidly that I begin to panic.

I make a sudden decision, scramble to my feet and start running. It feels like only a matter of seconds before I sense the dogs at my heels. Flash to my own nightmare Game of Thrones scenario where arch villain Ramsay Bolton carelessly tosses two women to the dogs for food - before being eaten, in a much later episode, himself. But this time, as the two bloodhounds finally pounce on their prey, the major danger is ... drowning in the dog slobber.

Immediately, they're called off, and I'm hauled to my feet by Calum Macfarlane, who runs this vast African wildlife conservancy in the foothills of Mount Kenya. I've been taking part in a training exercise for these anti-poaching dogs; bloodhounds schooled in the art of hunting down the gangs intent on slaughtering elephant and rhino for the rich rewards of their ivory and horn to satisfy markets in China, Vietnam, the US and, yes, Australia.

"The difficulty in Australia is that people from this far away don't seem to realise that any ivory product involves killing an elephant," says Rebecca Keeble, the Australian senior policy and campaigns officer of one of the largest conservation not-for-profits in the world, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Oceania.

"So when they want to buy ivory, they don't really understand where it comes from, and that they're helping create a demand for the product that some people will then always want to supply."

But in an industry best known for its grim statistics - 144,000 elephants poached across Africa between 2007 and 2014, or one killed every 15 minutes, according to the Great Elephant Census - there's suddenly much more reason for optimism.

Most of that is coming from a suite of innovative new measures being trialled in Kenya to defeat the poachers, a number of which are being undertaken by Australians, with a major exercise inspired by the work of an Australian counter-terrorism expert. At the same time, there have been landmark successes in helping curb demand for ivory in a trade that Interpol estimates is today worth between $US10 billion and $US20 billion a year, with Australia playing a role there, too.

A nine-month investigation by IFAW of auction houses in Australia found an astonishing 2400 ivory products being listed at 17 auction companies within a 12-month period, and then 78 per cent of those lots selling. That damning report, published late last year, has had a seismic impact on attitudes.

Auctioneers Leonard Joel, operating in both Sydney and Melbourne, was found to be offering the highest number of ivory lots for sale at 300 but, after discussions with IFAW, managing director John Albrecht underwent a complete change of heart. "You could call me 'born again' on this issue," he says. "As an auction house, you get bogged down in talking about ivory in terms of age and antiquity and beauty and cultural significance and intellectualising its importance in decorative arts.

"But I now understand that when an auction house agrees to trade in ivory, then they put a value on it and help to create a market. By doing that, you're a party to what's happening to elephants because any piece of ivory, however beautiful, always originates from the slaughter of an animal. Now I look at ivory objects I once thought were lovely and they absolutely repulse me."

From January 1 this year, he pledged to no longer trade in any raw ivory, like pairs of tusks, as well as any post-1921 worked ivory, while from January 1 2019 his auction rooms will no longer have anything to do with worked ivory pre-1921, either. "I'm absolutely passionate about this and am committed to changing the domestic perception of this issue," Albrecht says. "I think I'm gently driving the rest of the industry mad trying to get them on board but it's an important step for us all."

At the same time, pressure is growing on the Australian government to ban the local trade in buying and selling ivory antiques completely, following a resolution adopted unanimously at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) late last year recommending that all members close down their domestic markets for ivory. The US is currently doing that, state by state, France has done so, and the UK is talking about it. China, which as the leading destination for African ivory since 2002 on data from the Elephant Trade System, takes in an estimated 70 per cent of the global ivory supply, announced in January that it will ban all ivory trade by the end of this year.

People under 30 see wildlife dwindling and want to do something to stop that.
Mark Hutchinson, entrepreneur and Wild Ark founder

"That was a huge step in helping stop the world ivory trade," says Keeble. "It would seem quite an easy step for Australia to make too, especially as it won't affect the auction houses so much here now either. We have an opportunity now to support this and be at the forefront of the movement to save elephants."

Meanwhile, in Africa itself, those on the ground trying to physically protect elephants are becoming ever more inventive in their mission to outwit the poachers. Kenya is proving to be very much at the vanguard of the effort, with a series of experiments, such as the anti-poaching bloodhounds at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, to reinforce their arsenal.

So far, it's proving remarkably successful and now I understand why. A piece of specially manufactured, highly absorbent gauze had been placed over one of my footprints to pick up microscopic cells. The dogs were given one sniff of it and they tracked me down within what felt like seconds.

Their scent-following skills are legendary. One time they tracked a would-be poacher to the town of Isiolo, 32 kilometres away. They are one of the reasons - along with the thermal imaging technology deployed on a helicopter at night, a mini-army of 150 specially trained rangers, a highly sophisticated network of local informers, newly strengthened police powers of arrest and fast-track court processing - that no elephant has been killed for its tusks in the last five years here.

"We've worked hard at it," says Macfarlane, the big, bluff Scotsman who runs the Lewa House conservancy along with his wife Sophie Brown, a fourth-generation local. "We're doing everything we can." He surveys his security headquarters, with its array of weapons captured from poachers, which includes iron bars fashioned into spears with their tips dipped in poison, guns and ugly steel traps. "All these would mean terrible deaths for the elephants. These men have lost their tracking skills so if an elephant gets injured, the poachers can't keep up with it or find it, so it's a long, slow, lingering end. Horrible."

There's also the Save The Elephants-funded project to place radio collars on elephants which, via GPS tracking, shows their migratory patterns, helped by special "elephant corridors" dug under the roads, funded by a donation from Sir Richard Branson. The collars will also alert rangers when the elephants are wandering too close to local farms. They can cause huge damage and farmers have been known to attack them in an effort to keep them off their land.

"This is the best wildlife conservation example in East Africa," says Dr Zeke Davidson, Marwell Wildlife's field biologist in Kenya, who's been consulting on Lewa. "It's so important to study the behaviour of elephants before setting up a security system like this. They're smart. The day after we opened the underpass for them, we had 12 elephants using it. And when there's trouble anywhere else, we've seen them come back here, where they know they'll be safe. They're very clever animals."

American counter-terrorism intelligence expert Lieutenant Colonel Faye Cuevas is sitting in her pyjamas watching the sun rise over Nairobi. It's half a world away from past positions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today she's applying the same data collection techniques, analysis and strategies that she once used to fight terrorists to defeat wildlife poachers.

Now working as chief of staff for IFAW, she's at the helm of a major new anti-poaching offensive in Kenya in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service, called tenBoma, which may soon be rolled out into other countries in Africa. It uses the same tools to weed out, track and capture poachers as are used routinely to trap insurgents, with a philosophy informed by the work of Australian counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen, who was a senior adviser to US General David Petraeus in Iraq. With the first anniversary of the operation coming up in June, not a single animal has been lost in its areas. "We developed the idea of blending counterterrorism and counter-insurgency tactics and migrating them to the counter-poaching and trafficking wildlife space," says Cuevas. "We wanted to bring in a different way of looking at the problem and as a result, we're bringing an almost military campaign approach to bear, with our experience of major theatre wars, and engaging effectively with communities.

"Kilcullen asked the question, 'What does Al Qaeda look like?' and then explained that it's a global network of separate parts with the whole much greater than the sum of its parts. He said we needed to focus on the linkages between the parts, which is where you can have the most disruptive effect. Similarly, we strive to illuminate the nodes of the poacher networks to find the most vulnerable links. We've gone from reaching a tipping point [where more elephants are killed than being born] in the main elephant region of Tsavo in 2013 to a point where I'm now optimistic about the elephants' future."

That kind of military experience has led to another Australian also becoming active in the field. Australian special forces sniper and clearance diver Damien Mander visited Africa and was horrified to see the butchered corpses of elephants slaughtered for their tusks by poachers. "It affected me more than my time in Iraq did," says Mander, now 37. As a result, he sold his investment properties in Australia and put all his funds into setting up the International Anti-Poaching Federation in 2009, using drones extensively to keep an eye on wildlife.

Sydney business entrepreneur Mark Hutchinson is another who's now dedicating himself to protecting Africa's wildlife. As a young man, he travelled extensively around Africa and established adventure ecotourism company Untamed. Now, after the collapse of the education training business Vocation that had put him on BRW's Young Rich List, he's returned to Africa to set up Wild Ark, to buy, protect and restore as much safe land as possible for wildlife.

"My DNA is in this space and I've been overwhelmed by the response from our Australian audience," Hutchinson, also 37, says. "Australians are very tuned into wildlife in Africa as we're such a multicultural country and we've grown up reading books about wildlife and National Geographic and watching David Attenborough documentaries." He's been particularly successful in luring Australian celebrities over to help him in his work protecting elephants and other species, with surf champion Mick Fanning joining him as an ambassador and Wallabies star David Pocock now in the middle of a six-month break from rugby union working for his organisation in Africa.

"We get a lot of attention from social media and one of the questions we're asked is, 'How can I get involved?'" Hutchinson says. "Australians have always been interested in conservation but now they want to help create real outcomes. People under the age of 30 particularly see wildlife dwindling and want to do something to stop that. People also love hearing the positives rather than the Doomsday narratives and now there are a lot more wins to celebrate."

Julie McIntosh, founder and director of The Classic Safari Company, agrees, saying she's seeing an unprecedented increase in the number of Australians travelling to Africa, particularly to Kenya and Tanzania.

"There is always a high interest in seeing elephants, and clients are leaning towards travelling with purpose and seeing conservation projects in action," she says. "Places such as Ol Donyo - home to the 'big tuskers' - and Lewa are perfect because of their conservation efforts and the successes they have had with them. Tourism keeps conservation going and the more people learn about the efforts on the ground, the better ..."

The sun has just risen and we're walking as stealthily as we can, in single file, through the Kenyan bush just to the north of Mount Kilimanjaro. Senjuka Tomboya strides ahead, brandishing his rifle, while Altevu Lormunyei brings up the rear with a 12- bolt shotgun. Between the Maasai pair are another ranger and me, seemingly making more noise than the rest of them combined as I crunch over black volcanic gravel underfoot and snap acacia branches as I pass.

We're on the hunt for poachers after a report from locals of activity overnight near this spot, and we're creeping around on foot hoping to find them. Our commander stops suddenly, bends down, examines what are apparently elephant tracks and scat, and confers with his wing man. They're apparently from a big bull elephant in musth - a short period when his level of testosterone renders him sexually active and treacherously aggressive. It seems the dangers are now two-fold: meeting the poachers head-on and encountering their prey.

We continue, subdued and thoughtful. Every so often, Tomboya stops and motions to us to do the same. Each time, I can hear my heart thumping. But after three hours of stop-start, the rangers return me to base. They have another five hours of their patrol but I suspect I've been slowing them down. "No, but this is dangerous work," Lormunyei reassures me kindly. "We have two enemies out here - wild animals and the poachers. It is something we have to be passionate about to do."

This team is from the Big Life Foundation, a partner of a tourist lodge, Ol Donyo, in the Chyulu Hills. Big Life conservation scientist Jeremy Goss says the ranger teams, a rapid response unit and informers from the local Maasai community, who now see the elephants as helping them make a living, have meant considerable success in stopping poachers. "Last year we had just two cases, which is staggering compared to previous years," Goss says. "We had a few incidents, too, of elephant-human conflict, but we tend to shoot the elephants with paintballs of pepper to keep them away from local farms. But the most powerful weapon is showing locals that conservation makes financial sense to us all. With elephants, we have a tourism industry that benefits us all. Without it, we don't."

At the Sarara Camp in the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, the managers have just set up an elephant orphanage to care for babies that have been separated from their mothers, had accidents falling down wells, or whose mothers may have been killed by poachers. "This will be the first local community-owned elephant orphanage in Africa," says Sarara manager Robert Palmer. "We'll look after them and then reintroduce them back into the wild.

"We have far fewer elephants poached now as the local people, the Samburu, feel the elephants are theirs and want to protect them. These babies will be the future for us all."

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I can hear the deep, throaty baying of the bloodhounds clearly from my hiding place 500 metres away. The sound makes my skin prickle with fear. I've done everything I can to disguise my trail, from burying it under animal scat to peeing on it, from doubling back and criss-crossing the plain to fording a stream.

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I chose this article because in there are 170 millions players and fans in China ,surpassing any regular sports.Esport is playing significant role in nowdays,and im interested in Esport.
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video gaming which is popular by the time.Especially,there are 170 million players and fans in China.This is a huge amount of data. In my opinion video gaming will be play in every family

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Esports - next frontier in video gaming[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

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When Liu Zhenyan commentates live from the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, tens of millions of Chinese viewers tune in to watch the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational, one of the most important annual League of Legends gaming tournaments in the world.

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I chose this article because more and more wildlife is extinction. It is about Jane Gooddall how to treat the environment and wildlife.She spends her  life in protecting wildlife.

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I'm interested in this article because it plays vital role the environment especially wildlife. The authorities should make the law to protect the ecosystem and wildlife. Furthermore, the government should penalize severely people who break the law. It's a good article.
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Predictions of revolution come generally from young romantics flogging Green Left Weekly outside train stations, or middle-aged cynics convinced the promises of Lenin and Castro were crushed and perverted before their true magnificence was revealed.

When they come from a Dame of the British Empire, a distinguished scientist in her 80s, at one stage a Baroness listed in Debrett's, therefore, they carry a certain resonance.

"Sometimes I think revolution is going to be inevitable," said Jane Goodall.

Dr Goodall - Dame Jane, perhaps - is a truly legendary figure among environmentalists. Her reputation for scientific rigour and insight was dramatically demonstrated in 1971 with the publication of In the Shadow of Man, a pioneering study of wild chimpanzees that revolutionised the world's understanding of our primate cousins.

The book remains a must-read for anyone interested in biology or evolution.

Since then, she has founded an eponymous research and education institute, been heavily involved in animal rights and welfare movements around the globe, garnered a swag of honorary degrees, and received accolades from organisations as diverse as the United Nations and Walt Disney.

In 1991, the Jane Goodall Institute kicked off a youth education program called (a little unfortunately, from an Australian perspective) Roots and Shoots. It now has 150,000 groups in 98 countries, creating, perhaps, the children of the revolution.

"If you care about the environment, and you actually care about your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren, what we're doing now is a path to total ecosystem collapse and disaster," she said.

"There is no question about that. If our voices are not enough - if there aren't enough people renovating destroyed landscapes and saving endangered species - we will face the planet's sixth mass extinction.

"It does need to have major change. How that's going to come about, I don't know. I'm not a prophet. I just know that if we all lose hope, we will just give up."

Goodall talks a lot about hope, and shows no signs of giving up. At 83, an age when most people are taking things a bit easy, she is on the road and in public for 300 days a year. (Even the late bluesman, BB King, ever a restless performer, scaled back to 200 shows annually when he hit his 70s.)

In June and July this year she will be in Australia (she was last here in 2014) and New Zealand for a series of public events - and, no doubt, a hefty string of meetings, lectures and school visits in between.

Her themes will be reasons for optimism, and the role of young people in generating them.

She believes that a range of particularly human factors - including generational change and "the indomitable human spirit of people who tackle the impossible and won't give up" - will eventually overcome short-sighted politicians and cashed up coal miners and save the world.

She points to climate change marches - in which she participates - as evidence. She also points to her youth groups, and to the fact that Gombe - the Nigerian national park in which she first studied chimps - is these days safe and surrounded by a human population that protects rather than poaches it.

She is impressed by the power of mobile phones and, delightfully, "i-Tablets", to galvanise mass action.

"We now have the wherewithal to get people who feel passionate about something to join together in a way that wasn't possible before, and to give voices a chance to hear each other," she said.

"You can draw strength from the knowledge that there are so many people. If enough come in and make their voices heard, eventually maybe it's going to make some difference on companies and legislators.

"I mean, right now it seems almost impossible in this era of Trump but, you know, you must never give up. You just have to go on trying."

Hence her increasing focus on getting young people involved in environmentalism. Roots and Shoots operates from kindergarten through to high schools, with each group encouraged to take on three active projects.

She is much heartened, she said, by the fact that every time she visits a participating school she sees "young people with shining eyes rushing to tell Dr Jane what they've been doing to make the world better".

Therein, she adds, hope resides.

"One reason that makes people feel very apathetic is the thought that there are all these huge problems and there's nothing I can do about it," she said.

"It was that message that caused me to start the Roots and Shoots program. I don't know what sort of window of time we have before we're on the path of no return.

"I choose to believe there is a window of time, although other scientists will tell you there isn't. You know, it's really important to get enough people together to make right decisions each day, as well as getting politicians and CEOs to make bigger decisions.

"My hope comes from the determination of these young people."

Whether youthful intent, school programs, inspiring speeches, considered responses - in short, civilised behaviour - will turn out to be enough remains to be seen. Perhaps, in the end, the battle will be fought less in classrooms and more across barricades.

"Do we need a revolution? It would be sad, wouldn't it?" she said.

"If it's a revolution in thought, that would be good. But revolutions do tend to get bloody, don't they?"

Jane Goodall will be in Australia and New Zealand from June 9. Thinkinc.org.au

The chimp researchers and the cartoonist

In the 1980s, popular US cartoonist Gary Larson acknowledged Jane Goodall's status in popular culture by referring to her in one of his drawings.

The cartoon showed two chimpanzees engaged in mutual grooming. One pulls out a long blonde hair and says, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall Tramp?"

When it was published Goodall was in the field in Africa and didn't see it, but her staff did and were outraged.

Her office quickly drafted a legal letter to Larson and his publishers, terming the drawing an "atrocity".

Goodall, however, intervened before it was sent, saying she found it rather amusing.

An agreement between the parties was quickly reached. Larson gifted the drawing to the Jane Goodall Institute, which promptly whacked it on a T-shirt.

Goodall wrote a preface for one of Larson's books, and the original furious letter was later included in a later, larger cartoon collection.

In 1988, the primatologist invited the cartoonist to visit and see her work at the Gombe National Park in Nigeria. When he arrived he was attacked by a chimpanzee called Frodo.
Andrew Masterson
Great dame

Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall is born on April 23, 1934 in London to Mortimer Morris-Goodall, a businessman, and Margaret Joseph, a novelist.

Long fascinated by animals and Africa, in 1957 she accepts an invitation from a school friend to visit her family's farm in the Kenyan highlands. Within a few months she meets famed anthropologist Louis Leakey.

In the summer of 1960, Leakey sends Goodall, 26, to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa to study the area's wild chimpanzee population, believing that a "mind uncluttered by academia" might yield a fresh perspective. Her observation that chimps stripped leaves off twigs to fish out termites from nests overturned accepted science that only humans were capable of and made tools.

In 1961 Leakey arranges for her to enter Cambridge University as a Ph.D candidate, even though she has no degree.

Shortly afterwards she returns to Tanzania to continue her research and in 1965 establishes the Gombe Stream Research Centre.

She is awarded her Ph.D in ethology from Cambridge in 1966.

Her first major book, In the Shadow of Man, is published in 1971 bringing her to wider public attention.

In 1977 she founds the Jane Goodall Institute to provide ongoing support for field research on wild chimpanzees and fight to protect the habitat in which they live.

Her 1989 book, The Chimpanzee Family Book, receives the 1989 UNICEF/UNESCO Children's Book-of-the-Year Award. Goodall uses the prize money to have the text translated into Swahili. It is distributed throughout Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi to educate children who live in or near areas populated by chimpanzees.

In April 2002, secretary-general Kofi Annan names Goodall a United Nations "Messenger of Peace".

Goodall is invested as a Dame of the British Empire in 2003.

Goodall has been married twice. Her first marriage, in 1964, was to Dutch nobleman, wildlife photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick. They have a son. The pair divorced in 1974. Her second husband, Tanzanian MP Derek Bryceson, died in 1980.

Source: Jane Goodall Institute

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The world's favourite chimpanzee whisperer Jane Goodall talks revolution at 83

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Predictions of revolution come generally from young romantics flogging Green Left Weekly outside train stations, or middle-aged cynics convinced the promises of Lenin and Castro were crushed and perverted before their true magnificence was revealed. When they come from a Dame of the British Empire, a distinguished scientist in her 80s, at one stage a Baroness listed in Debrett's, therefore, they carry a certain resonance.

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I chose this article about AlphaGo which is a high AI technology in this world . Because I think that AI technology has a good future and this technology will influence our life.

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I enjoy this essay that show  weiqi( Chinese game) how popular in the world.The boy who only 19-years-old  won the game.That is amazing.

Comment by Alfred I enjoy this article that a competition between computer AlphaGo and  19-year-old Chinese Weiqi player Ke Jie.  I very imaged about the technology in nowadays.

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Posted May 29, 2017 15:25:21

If it was just about man versus machine in the ancient Chinese game of Go, then Google has come out on top.

The reigning world champion, 19-year-old prodigy Ke Jie proved no match for the tech giant's artificial intelligence AlphaGo, losing the game of strategy in the picturesque water town of Wuzhen.

The contest is seen as an attempt for the Californian company to make a soft entry back into the Chinese market, seven years after they withdrew amid censorship and hacking concerns.

The best of three match-up against Ke drew comparisons to IBM DeepBlue's chess games against the Russian master Gary Kasparov in the 1990s.

"I have a huge amount of respect for Ke Jie taking on AlphaGo, and as a human he has to take on not just the game itself but also the psychological pressure of being in this intense situation", AlphaGo lead developer David Silver said.

Developers said the AI had significantly improved since a similar series of games with a South Korean champion in early 2016.

"The game of Go is so complex that the number of configurations on the board is greater than the number of atoms in the universe", Mr Silver said.

Mr Silver's British-based team developed 'neural networks' in the machine that feedback information and allow it to make precise calculations on the probability of winning each move.

He said Ke represented the pinnacle of human skill when it came to playing Go.

"He's very young, he grew up playing Go on the internet and played thousands and thousands of games online and developed strategies that are very different to how the game used to be played," he said.

But it wasn't enough to beat AlphaGo, which Google said will now retire.

"I feel like I can't beat it no matter how hard I try," Ke said after his second match.

AlphaGo Google's ticket back to China

Google's suite of services, including its popular Gmail service, remain blocked in China - a situation other US tech giants like Facebook and Twitter also contend with.

In their absence, Chinese domestic tech companies have flourished, leading analysts to believe Beijing's 'by hook or by crook' stifling of the US giants is as much to do with protectionism as censorship.

Google spared no effort in using the Go tournament as a charm offensive.

It hired a conference centre built only a few years ago by China's Government to host an annual internet summit.

It also flew out the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet, Eric Schmidt, who used an address to urge Chinese tech companies to use Google's machine learning products.

But on the surface at least, this gathering was all about the game of Go.

In the final days before the first match, Chinese websites planning to livestream the matches to fans across the country were issued a directive from the Government not to.

The heavy handed move potentially denied millions of fans the opportunity to watch this showcase event, signalling to Google that even taking incremental steps to return to China's vast market won't be straightforward.
Watch Bill Birtles' story tonight on Lateline at 9.30pm on ABC News 24 or 10.30pm on ABC TV.
Topics: games, games-industry-professional-gaming, internet-culture, internet-technology, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, china

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Posted May 29, 2017 15:25:21 If it was just about man versus machine in the ancient Chinese game of Go, then Google has come out on top. The reigning world champion, 19-year-old prodigy Ke Jie proved no match for the tech giant's artificial intelligence AlphaGo, losing the game of strategy in the picturesque water town of Wuzhen.

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I chose this article about water pollution that plastic and how it affects our oceans. The report shows 8 million tonnes of plastic went to our ocean. I hold the opinion that humans should protect the environment because we live here.
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I enjoy this  topic because I think we mustn't litter. We should sort the rubbish, I think fresh water is very important for our life no one can live without the water. We need to get together to make the water pollution fewer and fewer.
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i chose this article, because I think the water is one of the most important for people, wo should protect it.

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Plastic is woven into the fabric of our lives.

"No-one in their daily life within a period of 10 minutes isn't touching something that is made of plastic," said Professor Andrew Holmes, an emeritus professor at the University of Melbourne and a polymer chemist who has developed special plastics for flat screen TVs and solar cells.

It's used in everything from the keyboard or pen you are using, to your glasses or contact lenses, the Teflon on your frying pan, and the banknotes in your wallet. It's in your clothes, phone, car, mattress, and TV screen.

"Plastic can be flexible or rigid, and its lightness also makes it very appealing," said Professor Holmes.

But for all the benefits plastic has given us, disposing of products - particularly those designed to be used only once, such as packaging - has become a major environmental issue.

"The ocean is full of waste because humans have disposed of it carelessly," said Professor Holmes.

So how big is the problem, what happens once plastic goes into the ocean, and what can we do about it?

How much plastic goes into the ocean?

Around 8 million tonnes of plastic went into the ocean in 2010, according to the most comprehensive study of plastic pollution so far.

The international study calculated that 192 nations produced a total of 275 million tonnes of plastic waste.

The largest amount of this waste was produced by China, at 1.32 to 3.52 million tonnes. This was followed by Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

Australia - which didn't rate in the top 20 polluters - contributed less than 0.01 million tonnes.

But that still added up to 13,888 tonnes of litter per year, a quarter of which finds its way into waterways, according to study co-author Dr Chris Wilcox of CSIRO's Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship.

With global production of plastic increasing exponentially, the amount of plastic finding its way into the ocean is likely to get much bigger.

"About every 11 years the amount of plastic produced doubles," said Dr Wilcox.

"To put that in other words, between now and 2028 we will produce as much plastic as we produced [from the 1950s] until now."

How long does plastic last in the ocean?

Plastic is made to be strong and durable, so it can take a long time to break down.

"Plastics are very hard materials so they are hard to break down unless you can burn them," said Professor Holmes.

"There are some you can get back to original building blocks, but not many."

These include the newer plant-based bioplastics made out of polylactic acid (PLA). But much like traditional petrochemical plastics such as Perspex, PLA-based plastics only break down under very high temperatures.

What is plastic made from?

Plastics is the name we give to a group of substances mostly made from carbon-based molecules arranged in many repeat units (n) in a long chain known as a polymer.

There are many different types of plastics depending upon what is attached to the carbon

Plastic shopping bags, for example, are made from a type of polymer called polyethylene (C₂H₄n) - where each unit in the chain is made up of two hydrogen atoms joined to one carbon atom.

Most plastics are derived from petroleum, although some newer ones, known as bioplastics, are derived from building blocks produced by microbial fermentation or from corn syrup.

Chemicals including colourants, foaming agents, plasticisers, antioxidants and flame retardants can be added to different types of plastics to give them specific qualities such as colour, texture, flexibility and durability.

In the natural environment, the main things that break down plastics are sunlight, oxygen and water.

"The problem is that normal degradation leaves particles that can still be harmful to living things - nanoparticles and microparticles," said Professor Holmes.

"That includes so-called degradable polymers used in some plastic bags, which have starch added to help them fall apart."

The rate at which plastic breaks down depends upon the conditions and the type of plastic.

It breaks down faster if exposed to physical abrasion and sunlight - so it will break down faster in surf zones than if it is buried under sediment in an estuary, Dr Wilcox explained.

"Then there's a lot to do with how thick the plastic is, how dense the plastic is, and does it have UV stabilisers."

For example, dense monofilament fishing line could last for up to 600 years, whereas a thin plastic bag getting bashed around in the surf could last just months.

"But even if that bag breaks down over the course of six months or a year, it might well have had a lot of environmental impact before that," he said.

Where does the plastic go?

It is really hard to quantify just how much plastic is in the ocean, but the latest figures estimate there are up to 51 trillion particles or 236,000 tonnes.

That may sound like a lot, but in fact it is nowhere near the estimated 8 billion tonnes that went into the oceans in 2010 alone.

Precisely what happens to the "missing" plastic is a puzzle for researchers like Dr Wilcox.

"That says around 40 times the plastic that's in the ocean is going in every year. So there's a whole bunch that has to be going somewhere else."

Plastic is widespread in the open ocean, but is particularly concentrated in the five major ocean gyres - rotating currents of water - in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The largest and best known of these is the Great Garbage Patch in the north Pacific - a concentrated soup of microplastics, or tiny fragments less than 5 millimetres across.

There are two types of plastics that float: polyethelene, which is used to make milk jugs and plastic bags, and polypropolene, which is used for things like bottle caps, straws and dairy containers.

As they travel out to sea plastics get ground down into small, hard cubes, which can be eaten by marine animals.

Plastics are also home to microbes in a phenomenon dubbed the " plastisphere". These microbes may be simply using the plastic to float around the ocean, but there is some evidence they may play a role breaking down the plastic.

Plastics should become more abundant as they break down in size, but recent research found the concentration of the smallest particles, between a few microns and a few millimetres, was much lower than expected.

"It's not clear what's going on - whether there's some kind of sampling problem, or if those things are settling to the bottom of the ocean," Dr Wilcox said.

Scientists have found evidence of microplastics in deep-sea sediments from the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean.

Some of the missing plastic could also be in coastal regions.

"I think that that is something that people really don't appreciate. The gyres may have a fair bit of plastic in them, but the coastal margin probably has much more," said Dr Wilcox.

"Even in Australia, you can tell how far away you are from a city by how much plastic is on the beach and in the water near the beach."

An analysis of waters around Australia found on average there were around 4,000 microplastic fragments per square kilometre, although some hotspots had concentrations of around 15,000 to 23,000.

The vast majority of the microplastic fragments came from plastic packaging such as cups, bottles, bags, as well as fragments of fishing gear.

Dr Wilcox said coastal pollution was an even greater problem for biodiversity than in the open ocean.

"The number of species in the coastal margin is much higher than out in the gyres."

What impact does plastic have on marine animals?

Research shows getting entangled in plastic was the biggest issue, said Dr Wilcox.

Animals get wrapped up in monofilament fishing line nets, plastic bags, balloons, and straps.

His research has estimated that between 5,000 and 15,000 sea turtles are entangled each year by derelict fishing gear washing ashore in northern Australia alone.

"Anything that is long or flexible or sheet-like is the worst."

The second biggest issue is the impact of eating plastic - it is estimated around 90 per cent of seabirds are doing so.

These plastics can cause blockages of the gut or perforation of the intestines.

Ingestion of plastic can also cause toxic chemicals such as phthalates - a plasticiser that effects the hormone system - to leach into the animal.

"In our research, we can predict how much plastic is in a seabird's stomach by measuring how much phthalate is in its fat," said Dr Wilcox.

So what can we do about it?

"The solution to all this stuff is on land and it has to do with changing our supply chains around packaging, how we use packaging, and how we take care of packaging," said Dr Wilcox.

The main problem, he said, was how cheap plastic was.

"If plastic had a fee or deposit associated with it we would produce and consume less."

He said one way of doing this was to introduce container deposit schemes, which had been shown to reduce the amount of drink containers in the environment by 60 per cent.

"That is a big deal, as beverage containers make up 40 per cent of the waste in the environment."

Consumers could also press retailers to use less plastic packaging, Dr Wilcox said.

"In many cases individuals have been able to drive significant local change by governments and businesses."

According to Professor Holmes, the world may have to move to fully biodegradable plastics, made out of plants. But these have drawbacks.

"The challenge is, is there enough arable land to produce the building blocks of plastic when we also need to produce food?"

In the meantime, he said, we must recycle anything we can.

"Ideally all plastics should be recyclable, but at present that is not the case."

Professor Holmes said plastics that cannot be recycled - such as those used in plastic bags, or expanded polystyrene foam used in coffee cups and packaging around electronic goods - must be responsibly disposed into landfill or by burning.

"The plastic waste in the oceans is disastrous for marine and bird life, and the human race has to avoid disposal of this waste in a way that enables it to enter drains, rivers, and eventually the ocean," he said.

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I chose this article  because  the environmental  pollution kills  millions of Children annually. The environment plays an important role for people especially children   Personally, the government should punish severely people who break the law.
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this article is very important for children. i think the goverment should do something to protect the health of  children, but I have some question that what causes air pollution? and how to solve it? in the environment of pollution , anyone are the same which richer and poorer live in the city by pollution. they their health is affected

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I think this is a very important problem for people, because we live here. I like this topic because i hope everyone point in this problem. i hold the opinion that we should protect the environment.

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.

Environmental pollution kills 1.7 million children under the age of five every year worldwide. This is according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO warns that child deaths will increase greatly if pollution continues to worsen.

Dr. Margaret Chan is the WHO Director-General. In a press release statement, Chan said, "A polluted environment is a deadly one - particularly for young children."

She explains that "their developing organs and immune systems, and smaller bodies and airways, make them especially vulnerable to dirty air and water."

The most common causes of death among children aged one month to five years are diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia. This is according to the WHO. The organization also says reducing environmental risks can prevent such deaths. This means providing access to safe water and sanitation, limiting exposure to dangerous chemicals, and improving waste management.
Experts say air pollution is the most dangerous
However, of all the environmental pollutants, air pollution is being called the most dangerous.

The WHO estimates that air pollution is responsible for about 6.5 million premature, or early, deaths every year. That number includes nearly 600,000 deaths of children under age five. Most of these deaths take place in developing countries.

However, WHO environment and health chief Maria Neira tells VOA that air pollution is a leveler between rich and poor. Everybody, she says, needs to breathe.

"You can be a very rich child, your parents very rich, but living in a place, in a city, which is very polluted. And then there is very little you can do because we all need to breathe. So, even if you are rich or poor, you still need to breathe and this is very pernicious. Air pollution is everywhere."

Neira says one of the most important ways to reduce air pollution is to produce cleaner fuels for cooking and heating.

"Almost half of the world population is using dirty fuels for cooking, heating, and lighting at home. And, this is affecting very much mothers who are staying and cooking at home, but the children who are around mothers-they are exposed as well."

She says early exposure to harmful pollutants can lead to increased risk of chronic respiratory disease, asthma, heart disease, stroke and cancer later in life.

Cleaning up how the world cooks, heats and lights homes and other buildings is a big-picture goal. The WHO is advising government departments and industries such as construction and the health sector to work together to clean up the environment.

But what about the here and now? What can individuals do to limit their family's exposure to air pollution?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has these suggestions:

Avoid walking where there is a high volume of vehicle traffic.

Equip homes with air filters and air conditioning units.

Limit your time outside if you live in an area that issues warnings about air quality.

Wear high-quality rated face masks tightly to the face when air quality is poor.

If you live or commute in a very polluted area, remove your clothes and wash immediately after entering your house.

Some of these suggestions, however, may not work for some people -- for example:

those living in areas troubled by high levels of pollution,

those who cannot stay home from work or school,

and those who do not have money for protective equipment.

Therefore, the WHO stresses that governments around the world need to take the lead on ensuring that children grow up in a clean environment.

And that's the Health & Lifestyle report. I'm Anna Matteo.

Look for follow-up stories here at the Health & Lifestyle report on other ways you can protect yourself and your family against environmental pollutants.
Lisa Schlein reported for VOA from Geneva at the launch of two WHO reports dealing with the effect of harmful environments on children's health. Anna Matteo adapted this story for Learning English, adding addition reporting from several websites. George Grow editor the story.
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press release - n. an official statement that gives information to newspapers, magazines, television news programs, and radio stations

vulnerable - adj. capable of being physically or emotionally wounded

access - n. a way of being able to use or get something

sanitation - n. the process of keeping places free from dirt, infection, disease, etc., by removing waste, trash and garbage, by cleaning streets, etc.

pernicious - adj. causing great harm or damage often in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

premature - adj. happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper, usual, or intended time

leveler - n. something that treats or affects all people the same way

big-picture - adj. the entire perspective on a situation or issue

sector - n. a sociological, economic, or political subdivision of society

here-and-now - n. the present time -used with the

rated - v. to determine or assign the relative rank or class of

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WHO: Environmental Pollution Kills Millions of Children Every Year

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I chose this article about internet security, because the internet is very important to own life and we have a lot of privacy information save on the internet,  so if you can't make sure your computer is safe , you will be in danger of a leak.

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US internet service providers will soon no longer need consent from users to share browsing history with marketers and other third parties.
On Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to repeal an Obama-era law that demanded ISPs have permission to share personal information - including location data.

Supporters of the move said it would increase competition, but critics said it would have a "chilling effect" on online privacy.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign the order soon.

The repeal was strongly backed by major providers such as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, who argued that ISPs were being subject to stricter privacy laws than companies like Google or Facebook.

The law, passed last October days before President Trump was elected, and due to take effect by the end of this year, would have forced ISPs to get clear permission from users to share personal data such as "precise geo-location, financial information, health information, children's information, social security numbers, web browsing history, app usage history and the content of communications".

Furthermore, ISPs would have been ordered to allow their customers the ability to opt out of the sharing of less sensitive information, like an email address.

'Winners and losers'

Ajit Pai, the new head the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said the repeal would help level the online playing field.

"Last year, the Federal Communications Commission pushed through, on a party-line vote, privacy regulations designed to benefit one group of favoured companies over another group of disfavoured companies," he said in a statement.

"Appropriately, Congress has passed a resolution to reject this approach of picking winners and losers before it takes effect.

"Moving forward, I want the American people to know that the FCC will work with the [Federal Trade Commission] to ensure that consumers' online privacy is protected though a consistent and comprehensive framework."

But advocates of internet rights have been left furious.

"Today Congress proved once again that they care more about the wishes of the corporations that fund their campaigns than they do about the safety and security of their constituents," said Evan Greer, campaign director from rights group Fight for the Future.

"People from across the political spectrum are outraged," she added, "and every lawmaker who votes to take away our privacy will regret it come election day."

The group has launched a billboard campaign to publicise which members of Congress back the repeal.

Other groups have expressed anger at the apparent silence of the major technology companies in the run up to the House vote.

"There are a lot of companies that are very concerned about drawing attention to themselves and being regulated on privacy issues, and are sitting this out in a way that they haven't sat out previous privacy issues," said Craig Aaron from Free Press, a group which advocates for a more "open" internet.
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US internet service providers will soon no longer need consent from users to share browsing history with marketers and other third parties. On Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to repeal an Obama-era law that demanded ISPs have permission to share personal information - including location data.

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I chose this article because water is very important for everyone, but the source of water can be used that it is very poor. In China, 80 per cent of rivers are polluted. This article is about how to deal with this situation.

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After reading the article, it makes me know some solutions about water problem. The article  is needed  by many people. It is a successful article.
Comment by Mike water issue is very strict. We need to focus on this.

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Investors can follow the lead from Dr Michael Burray, the GFC-predicting protagonist from Michael Lewis' The Big Short, and invest in one of the world's most urgent themes: water.

In China, 80 per cent of rivers are too toxic for fish; in the United States, Californian authorities spend about $US20 billion annually on their water supply and in Australia, there is a $30 billion water trading market, thanks to agricultural reforms in the mid-2000's.

Water scarcity is proving a lucrative global theme, combining a demographic trend with the threat of climate change.

Around $US7.5 trillion ($10.1 trillion) is the projected global spend in water infrastructure over the next 15 years, according to the World Economic Forum, and as international regulation is tightened, $US300 billion is slated to address water pollution by China's Water 10 plan.

"It's impossible to overstate our dependence on water," said Ian Simm, chief executive of Impax Asset Management, which has £5.5 billion ($9.48 billion) assets under management.

"And businesses are focused on things from smart irrigation to maintaining drinking quality to water distribution efficiency and huge dam engineering projects, mean there are hundreds of entry points for investors."

Ways to invest

Impax has invested $2.9 billion into around 40 water global water stocks, largely focused on infrastructure and water utility plays, and since the fund's inception in 2009 has returned 13.4 per cent to shareholders.

There are three main avenues to invest in water: purchase water rights, invest in water-rich farmland and invest in water utilities, infrastructure and equipment.

Mr Simms points to the likes of French multinational SUEZ, American Danahar Corporation and Swiss Georg Fischer as large and diversified firms capitalising on the voracious demand for water infrastructure and new technologies.

More locally, an advanced water trading scheme in Australia was introduced in the mid-2000s, and allows investors to buy water rights that were previously owned by farmers.

Water in the Murray-Darling Basin is allocated to landholders such as farmers who can either use it on their property or offer it for sale. The federal government decides how much water can be removed, based around rainfall levels.

Brisbane-based Blue Sky Alternative Investment fund has $2.7 billion under management and actively trades water rights in the Murray Darling.

"Water and agriculture demand has been growing strongly," Rob Shand, chief operating officer at Blue Sky, said. "It's one of Australia's strengths globally and with the food boom in Asia's emerging middle class, it's an enormous opportunity for us as a country and for our business as well."

Water stocks

At the high-tech end of the water sector, Israeli firm Emefcy Group has received plenty of investor interest in the past few weeks.

Emefcy has developed a Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR) product that enables wastewater to be reused for specific purposes such as crop irrigation. Emefcy has designed its technology for remote areas, invariably in poor parts of the world that suffer from severe water shortages.

The company announced it has three new commercial agreements in China and investors have flooded into the stock; it has soared 27 per cent so far since the beginning of May.

"Anything that looks to contribute solutions to China's extremely serious water issues is likely to receive investor interest," Tom King, chief investment officer of Nanuk Asset Management, said. "But a lot of these smaller companies have a lot of value ascribed to the future."

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I chose this article because not walking will have a sick peolple .Experts have found sport will reduce disease
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This article is very good for people. I like it because it tells us how to keep  healthy. I have learnt that walking can reduce human's disease,and walking can also improve your creativity.

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After reading this this article I think walking everday is good for our health. I like walking very much, it can keep our health and hardly to catch a cold. Walking every day can reduce the number of deaths. I think is a successful article.

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.

If you want to get healthy or stay healthy, there is one easy activity to add to your day - walking.

"Walking is the closest thing we have to a wonder drug," says Thomas Friedman. Friedman is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States.

And he is not alone in considering walking a great exercise.

Health experts at the Mayo Clinic, the American Heart Association, the Arthritis Foundation, Harvard Medical School and many other health research groups agree.

You may think that simply taking a walk is not enough to make a big difference. You might think that you need do something strenuous like running to stay healthy.

Well, a new study says that is not true. It finds that walking may be as good for us as running.

Running is a high- impact activity and can be hard on the body. So, many people cannot run. Walking, it seems, has all of the advantages and none of the disadvantages of running.

The American Heart Association explains the findings on its website. Walking quickly, or briskly, can lower your risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California did the study. Over a six-year period, they studied about 33,000 runners in the National Runners' Health Study and just over 15,000 walkers in the National Walkers' Health Study.

The researchers found that the same energy used for brisk walking and vigorous running "resulted in similar reductions in risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and possibly coronary heart disease over the study's six years."

The study also found that the more people walked or ran each week, the more their health benefits increased.
Walking is easy, fun and accessible
Dr. Russell Pate is a professor of exercise science at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. He is also a volunteer at the American Heart Association. He commented on the study on the association's website.

Pate says the health benefits of walking are not "all or nothing." If your goal is to walk for 30 minutes a day, you can split that into three 10 minute walks.

Walking, he adds, has the lowest dropout rate of any exercise. People who start walking regularly usually stick with it.

Pate says what many other health experts say: Walking is one of the easiest and safest exercises a person can do. With walking, he says, there is no learning curve. That means you do not need to learn a lot to get results.

Walking requires no special skills or equipment. You can do it anywhere. It fits easily into your daily schedule. You can walk at work. You can park farther away from a store entrance. You can take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Walking is a great exercise for beginners. If you are out of shape or getting back into shape after an illness or accident, walking is perfect. You can do a little at a time, or as we like to say, take "baby steps."

So, walking lowers your risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. But many other studies have found that walking benefits the body and mind in other ways.

For example, regular brisk walking can help you:

Keep a healthy weight.

Improve your mood. Walking releases natural painkilling chemicals in the body. A study at California State University, Long Beach showed that the more steps people took during the day, the better their moods were.

Sharpens your mind. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, studied 6,000 women ages 65 and older. They found that age-related memory loss was lower for those who walked more.

Keep your joints healthy. The Arthritis Foundation (U.S.) explains on its website that most of the material that makes up our joints has no direct blood supply. Our joints get "nutrition from joint fluid that circulates as we move." When you walk, your joints get this "life-giving fluid," which means your joints stay stronger.

Improve your creativity. A 2014 study by Stanford University found that walking, indoors or outdoors, improved the ability to think creatively and solve problems.

Best of all, you can easily change where, when and how you walk. You can walk with your friends, co-workers, family or your dog. Or you can walk alone.

The faster, farther and more often you walk, the greater the benefits.

And that's the Health & Lifestyle report. I'm Anna Matteo ...

... and I'm Mario Ritter.
How much do you walk every day? Let us know in the Comments Section.
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Words in This Story

wonder drug - n. a very effective drug or cure

strenuous - adj. requiring or showing great energy and effort

impact - n. the act or force of one thing hitting another

advantage - n. something (such as a good position or condition) that helps to make someone or something better or more likely to succeed than others

disadvantage - n. something that causes difficulty : something that makes someone or something worse or less likely to succeed than others

brisk - adj. moving or speaking quickly : quick and efficient

vigorous - adj. done with great force and energy

coronary - adj. of or relating to the heart and especially to the vessels that supply blood to the heart

learning curve - n. the rate at which someone learns something new : the course of progress made in learning something. < The job has a very steep learning curve. [=there is a large amount that has to be learned quickly in order to do the job] >

mood - n. the way someone feels : a person's emotional state

circulate - v. to move without stopping through a system, place, etc.

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. If you want to get healthy or stay healthy, there is one easy activity to add to your day - walking. "Walking is the closest thing we have to a wonder drug," says Thomas Friedman.

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Often they don't call themselves smokers and they rarely buy cigarettes but this time of year, as the calender fills with festivities, they're lighting up like Christmas trees.

'Tis the season of the social smoker and researchers suggest their ranks are growing as many ignore mounting evidence of the harm to which they are exposing themselves.

John*, 40, has been lighting up no more than once a month for half his life and has never been tempted to go full time. "Not even close," he says.

He hides his habit from colleagues in Melbourne's banking sector and has only agreed to be interviewed on the promise of anonymity. "There is a stigma about social smoking nowadays," he explains.

Smoking is not something John makes plans to do and for 10 years he's been thinking about stopping. He hopes to quit one day, although when asked if he believes he will adds: "There's so many other vices and poisons and drugs in our daily lives and I'm pretty good with the rest of them."

John knows it's bad for him but being such an occasional smoker he's able to minimise that harm in his mind. This is easier to do for John because unlike heavier smokers he doesn't feel common immediate health affects like shortness of breath or coughing.

"The fact that I can't feel them, it doesn't put them out of my mind, like I know they're there and I know I'm just blocking them out but there's so many things you can be doing that are bad for you," he says.

"You know it's not right but you just add it all up and hope it all evens out in the end."

The desire for just one to four cigarettes continues to strike occasionally when he's drinking with friends but, significantly, not every time. John doesn't know what motivates him to smoke. "I've never been able to put my finger on it," he says.

An estimated 1.8 per cent of Australians, about 328,000, smoke less often than daily, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2011-12 National health survey. That is about 10 per cent of smokers.

"They may not have that strong addiction to nicotine, which means they can just go week to week without having one, but they've probably got themselves into a strong habit where the social cues are triggering them to have one," said Sarah White, the director of Quit Victoria.

Despite a recent study finding long term, low-level smoking makes them nine times more likely to die from lung cancer than a nonsmoker, a Victorian study released on Wednesday shows many smokers are still living in denial.

One in three, believes the dangers of smoking have been exaggerated, according to a phone survey of about 4500 Victorians conducted by the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer.

The Annual Victorian Smoking and Health survey shows the proportion of smokers who believe the public health warnings about cigarettes are overblown has even increased slightly from 29 per cent in 2011.

More than one in 10 smokers also do not believe, or do not know, that smoking causes illnesses.

The findings come days after a large study was published in Jama Internal Medicine, which backed evidence that even very occasional smoking can be a killer.

It surveyed more than 290,000 older Americans in 2004 - 2005, 10 years after first surveying a larger pool, and found those who smoked one to 10 cigarettes a day, even if they had quit by 50, still had a 44 per cent higher chance of dying early than people who didn't smoke.

The researchers, from the US National Cancer Institute, had undertaken the study in response to a growing proportion of US smokers who smoke less than 10 cigarettes a day, which it forecast will continue to rise.

"These results provide further evidence that there is no risk-free level of exposure to tobacco smoke," they argued.

It gets worse for social smokers. Last month, scientists discovered that every 50 cigarettes a person smokes causes one DNA mutation in each lung cell.

"That DNA damage accumulates and some of them get fixed and some of them don't but that DNA damage is what causes cancer," Dr White said.

"If someone is having, say, five a weekend that's just a couple of months and you've accumulated tons of mutations in your lungs and any one of those could go on to cause a cancer."

Dr White said smoking remains a leading cause of preventable death and disease in Australia, and kills more than 15,000 people a year.

"There's a really prevalent myth out there, and actually a lot of health professionals believe the same thing, that it's OK to cut down; and one to two cigarettes is not dangerous," she said. "That's simply quite wrong."
Fairfax Media has partnered with the Global Drug Survey for its fifth year to help understand how and why people take drugs in Australia.

For help to quit smoking, you can call Quitline on 137848.

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A remote and uninhabited island wilderness in the South Pacific is literally a garbage dump.

The beaches of World Heritage-listed Henderson Island, in the Pitcairn Group off South America, contain an estimated 37.7 million items of debris together weighing 17.6 tonnes, a new study has revealed.

Australian researcher Dr Jennifer Lavers said it meant the island had the highest density of plastic rubbish anywhere in the world.

"I've been fortunate in my career as a scientist to travel to some of the remote islands in the world, but Henderson was really quite an alarming situation ... the highest density of plastic I've really seen in the whole of my career," she said.

She said the finding, published on Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was a wake-up call to the world that plastic pollution was as grave a threat to humanity as climate change.

Annual production of plastic has increased from 1.7 million tonnes in 1954 to 311 million tonnes in 2014.

This has resulted in an estimated five trillion plastic items - mostly less than five millimetres in size - circulating in the surface layer of the world's oceans.

To understand how much debris was accumulating on the remote island, Dr Lavers, a conservation biologist at the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, and Dr Alexander Bond at the Centre for Conservation Science in the UK surveyed the island's North and East Beach for three months in 2015.

Dr Lavers said the 17.6 tonnes of plastic debris estimated to be on Henderson Island accounted for just 1.98 seconds' worth of the current annual global production of plastic.

She said the amount of rubbish was such that it took a five-person team six hours to survey a 10-metre section of the beach.

The team calculated there were 671.6 items per square metre on the surface of the beaches, with approximately 68 per cent of debris buried less than 10 centimetres in the sand.

Each day, 17 to 268 new items washed up on a 10-metre section of North Beach, representing a daily accumulation rate of 1.7 to 26.8 items per metre.

The scale of the pollution at Henderson Island shocked Dr Lavers, despite a career visiting many ocean "garbage patches" and tracking plastic pollution in marine environments.

"In addition to just blowing my mind with the sheer volume of plastic that was there, what amazed me was the majority of the debris was not shipping waste," she said.

Henderson Island is in an area of the ocean that is rarely traversed and is not near any shipping lanes or fisheries, with no major land-based industrial facilities or cities within 5,000 kilometres.

"The majority of items appear to be coming from land originally, which made its way into the ocean and that really falls on our shoulders to make a difference and to reduce our demand for these products," she said.

The nearest settlement is Pitcairn Island with a population of 40 people.

Everyday items make up bulk of garbage

Dr Lavers said only around 7 per cent of the junk on the beach was connected to fishing-related activities.

She said most of the items found on the beaches were everyday household items such as cigarette lighters, plastic razors, toothbrushes, plastic scoops used in detergents or baby formula, and babies' dummies.

"It speaks to the fact that these items that we call "disposable" or "single-use" are neither of those things, and that items that were constructed decades ago are still floating around there in the ocean today, and for decades to come," Dr Lavers said.

Dr Lavers said their study showed "there is nowhere left in the world that is safe - plastic is ubiquitous".

Just over a quarter of the rubbish came from South America and was the result of the movement of currents in the South Pacific gyre, which flows anti-clockwise after travelling north up the continent.

The estimates were "alarmingly" conservative, as the survey did not include items buried deeper than 10 centimetres or debris on cliff areas or rocky sections.

Plastic pollution was a major threat to marine species, Dr Lavers said, with a study released in the past two months suggesting about 1,200 species were negatively impacted.

On Henderson Island the rubbish created a barrier for sea turtles attempting to enter the beach and led to a reduction in sea turtle-laying numbers, while also affecting two native seabird species.

However, Dr Lavers said plastic pollution was also a major threat to human health as the toxic impact of plastic-related chemicals in the food chain were well documented.

"At a very minimum, 25 per cent of world's marine fish species are consuming plastic and we know with that plastic comes a suite of chemical pollutants," she said.

"Those fish are the base of the food web ... and we know humans are at the top of the food web.

"It is not a big leap to say the whole of the marine food web is contaminated and we are putting ourselves at grave risk."

Dr Lavers said the solution was a broad, sweeping education campaign and societal change, driven by public demand.

"Politicians don't make decisions based on what scientists say - when decisions are made it is because the public demands it," Dr Lavers said.

"That won't happen until the whole of the population recognises that this is the equivalent of climate change. We need to move now and we need to move fast.

"I need the public to give me their voice [for] a global movement, so we can break our plastic addiction here and now."

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The beaches of a remote World Heritage-listed island are littered with more plastic debris than anywhere else in the world, a researcher finds, warning that it serves as a wake-up call on plastic pollution and that it "falls on our shoulders" to make a difference.